Airdate: Wednesday.05.January.2005
Authorized Personnel Only; Part 1

Sydney, on a train, in lingerie, flirts with a man to get into his …
briefcase. He unlocks it, revealing a canister containing an unstable
isotope. She knocks him out and takes it, runs into the corridor. A thug
follows and is about to push her off the train...

Shanghai 72 hours earlier … Sydney, in a naughty schoolgirl outfit, escapes
with a contact into a club's bathroom. It's a mission gone bad, a fellow
agent is killed, and in order to escape she makes her contact dress like a goth.

In LA, Syd is berated for violating protocol by Director Chase and stripped of
her classified clearance. Sydney then quits the CIA. In Washington, Vaughn
and Weiss talk about his meltdown after discovering Lauren's treachery.
Vaughn says he's quitting.

Sydney walks down a subway, opens a secret doorway and enters an office.
Director Chase is there and welcomes her. She explains Langley approved
this black ops division only months ago. Dixon, Jack, Vaughn are all
there -- a team handpicked by Sloane. Chase privately tells Syd that they
need Sloane's contacts -- and the team is a safeguard against Sloane's
potential treachery.

Sloane explains that their covert unit is like the CIA's own SD-6, called
APO -- Authorized Personnel Only. Their first mission targets a Russian
scientist named Yuri Kamarov, who wants to sell an isotope to an unknown
buyer on a Belorussian train. Vaughn will act as the buyer while Syd grabs
the isotope. She's openly disdainful toward Sloane.

On the train, Syd barges in to Kamarov's room claiming that it's her room.
Vaughn poses as Kamarov and meets the buyer, who works for a Mr. Vadik,
while Sydney occupies the real scientist. The buyer recognizes Vaughn and
puts a thug on him as he leaves. Vaughn signals Syd, who swipes the
isotope. Vaughn beats the thug and races to save Syd. He throws her
assailant off the train. They make love. After, he asks Syd what happened
at Wittenburg. Syd flashes back -- she's reading a top-secret document as
Jack enters.